Word: aristo
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...bottom." Her grandmother put on earplugs when she sang. Hardly the way to treat a lady. Unless she happens to be Lady (Helen) Teresa Margaret Manners, 23, daughter of Charles John Robert Manners, the tenth Duke of Rutland, and lead singer of the British aristo-rock band, the Business Connection. Despite the group's white-collar name, Lady Teresa's connections are strictly blue blood. Her father owns Belvoir Castle, one of Britain's most imposing homes; her 15-piece band includes the Marquess of Worcester on vocals and the 19th Duke of Somerset on drums. A horsewoman and London...
...Tone spends the rest of the movie clenching, kneading, staring at his hands; he?s a nutso-virtuoso, an Ormandy or Orlac, conducting a symphony ... of Mur-der! It may be tough to keep from laughing at Tone?s aristo-path, and harder to wave away the plot idiocies. (How did Jack commit the murder and then track Scott into the bar and shadow his every move, so that he would be able to contact and bribe the witnesses?) Clear these hurdles and you?ll enjoy the climax, as Jack invites Carol back to his place, loosens...
...suspect that much of the insensitivity to the rights of Adamsians in their aristo-artistic elitism springs from a fundamental ignorance of the primacy of the meal in Adamsian culture. There is the coffee, elixir of caffeinated conversation and, by extension, of life. There is the dark wood, and the fragmentation expressed in the scrawligraphy on exhibition on the lee side of Tommy's Lunch...
Hardly had the Ayatullah Khomeini taken over Iran last February when Aristo Sayeh, the Anglican vicar in Shiraz, was found with his throat slit. The crime has not been solved...
...Everything came together in Scaramouche; the strongest moments in his other novels barely equal the weakest scenes in this book. The hero is a witty young lawyer whose best friend is skewered by an aristocratic swordsman on the eve of the French Revolution. The hero vows to hound the aristo to destruction-only to find the absolute powers of the monarchy arrayed against...